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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:14:26 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa <samz@oz.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Subject:   Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001120111426.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20001120110735.R58333@echunga.lemis.com>

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On 20-Nov-00 Greg Lehey wrote:
>  On Monday, 20 November 2000 at 11:06:14 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > They aren't 'MS partition tables'.
> > And they don't waste much space.
>  They waste space.  In most cases, they're not needed.  Isn't that
>  enough?

No, they are confusing and can cause problems if later you decide that you want make
the disk bootable.

They _are_ necessary with certain BIOSen.

At least remove the option from sysinstall so new users don't get stuck with it.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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